Welcome to the blog of Nathanael Boehm, 25-year-old Canberra web user interaction designer working for the Australian Government designing, prototyping, implementing and conducting usability testing for websites.
My skills include HTML, CSS and JavaScript (including jQuery and YUI frameworks) front-end development following accessibility, usability, UCD/UFD and user experience guidelines and best practice as well as developing WordPress themes and customisations. I have a background in ASP, ASP.NET, C# and PHP web application development with MS SQL and MySQL databases.
I am involved with Free Australia Wireless, OpenAustralia, BarCampCanberra, The Music Blogs, Aussie Bloggers and more.
I am a musician and play the drums, percussion, bass guitar, keyboard, piano and synths and currently play drums and percussion for local alt-pop/folk band The Camals.
I am also a photographer (Canon 400D, main lens Canon EF f/1.4 50mm) and regularly participate in the local Canberra flickr photographer group meets.
My MB personality type is INTJ.
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Member of Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA).
I’ve blogged about Getting Things Done previously and those tasks that just manage to sit in your task list for ever that you know you should do but just don’t get around to.
Even after doing complete purges of my task list occasionally it still creeps in due to lack of stringent policy on putting tasks [...]
Just a list I’ve been working on and will continue to work on to help people who have the responsibility of writing contracts for the outsourcing or contracting of web design and development work to external suppliers and vendors.
I may not be doing myself any favours for future job prospects by admitting this openly but I should say that this article is about how I perceive my skills. Putting that aside, I know I’m very competent at my job and skilled in a range of areas relating to design, development and project management. [...]
Last week I attended the Edge of the Web conference in Perth, Australia - along with WebJam 9, Western Australia Web Awards 08, a Port 80 and a PTUB.
I wrote a blog post on Edge of the Web for SitePoint - go read it!
Andrew Beeston recently ran a survey of active Twitterers in Australia and reported the results by city. Canberra turned out a disappointing five, coming in way below Sydney and Melbourne.
Come on - I know there’s way more active Twitter users in Canberra, so head over to the Twitter Australia list and leave a comment or [...]